This course studies numbers, switching (Boolean) algebra, switching functions, and combinational circuits. Number systems and conversion. Binary codes. Switching algebra. Algebraic simplification of ...

There are two main reasons mathematics has fascinated humanity for two thousand years. First, math gives us the tools we need to understand the universe and build things. Second, the study of ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 41, No. 2 (May 2016), pp. 442-465 (24 pages) In view of solving nonsmooth and nonconvex problems involving complex constraints (like standard NLP problems), we ...